Can't install GPL

Hi after GPL stopped working for an unknown reason(no changes made) i decided it was time for a reinstall, and checking funcionality at every step however it installs normally but it still starts and then at the first screen CTD's I have tried installing it in a different folder, on a different partition I have looked in the registry after uninstalling and could find nothing referring to sierra/papy/gpl the original istall stopped working after installing wolfenstein remember the reinstall is a bare version of GPL and it still won't start...... my sys specs are: P3/800 GF2GTS (23.11) drivers 384Mb MSI6309 mainboard Via chipset it ran perfectly in this setup for about 6 months can anybody help? Sudesh

"Sudesh Bhagwandin" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> Hi > after GPL stopped working for an unknown reason(no changes made) > i decided it was time for a reinstall, and checking funcionality at every > step > however it installs normally but it still starts and then at the first > screen CTD's > I have tried installing it in a different folder, on a different partition > I have looked in the registry after uninstalling and could find nothing > referring to sierra/papy/gpl > the original istall stopped working after installing wolfenstein > remember the reinstall is a bare version of GPL and it still won't > start...... > > my sys specs are: > P3/800 > GF2GTS (23.11) drivers > 384Mb > MSI6309 mainboard Via chipset > > it ran perfectly in this setup for about 6 months > > can anybody help?

Have you installed the 1.2 and D3D patches from www.papy.com? Wolfenstein probably installed DirectX 8, that sounds like the root of the problem. However, GPL runs just fine on DX8 (or 8.1)

I had DX8.1 on before I installed wolfenstein, and it ran fine then, as you said Thanks for the response! Sudesh "Rob Adams" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:6Tya8.3146$Qq1.15649@shaw-ty2... > "Sudesh Bhagwandin" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > Hi > > after GPL stopped working for an unknown reason(no changes made) > > i decided it was time for a reinstall, and checking funcionality atevery > > step > > however it installs normally but it still starts and then at the first > > screen CTD's > > I have tried installing it in a different folder, on a differentpartition

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> > I have looked in the registry after uninstalling and could find nothing > > referring to sierra/papy/gpl > > the original istall stopped working after installing wolfenstein > > remember the reinstall is a bare version of GPL and it still won't > > start...... > > > > my sys specs are: > > P3/800 > > GF2GTS (23.11) drivers > > 384Mb > > MSI6309 mainboard Via chipset > > > > it ran perfectly in this setup for about 6 months > > > > can anybody help? > > Have you installed the 1.2 and D3D patches from www.papy.com? > > Wolfenstein probably installed DirectX 8, that sounds like the root of the > problem. However, GPL runs just fine on DX8 (or 8.1) > >